The Lantern Festival, also known as the Yuanxiao Festival, was celebrated not only by admiring lanterns, solving lantern riddles, and setting off fireworks, but also by eating yuanxiao.
Yuanxiao were made of glutinous rice on the outside, with fillings of sesame and peanuts inside. They were sweet to eat and symbolized reunion.
The dragons danced in the streets were usually fire dragons; water dragons did not always represent good fortune. In Nezha Conquers the Dragon King, it was Ao Bing, the third prince of the Dragon King of the Eastern Sea, who had terrorized Chentang Pass. Filled with righteous indignation, Nezha killed that demon dragon and made a whip from its tendons.
When the Dragon King of the Eastern Sea learned of this, he flew into a rage and stirred up storms, intending to flood Chentang Pass. Unwilling to implicate others, Nezha took his own life. Later, he was reborn through the power of lotus leaves and flowers, becoming the Lotus Prince and wreaking havoc in the Eastern Sea Dragon Palace.
Of course, that was a folk tale. Nezha had originally been an ancient Persian god, later entering Buddhism and becoming the Buddhist protector Nalakuvara, third son of Vaisravana, one of the Four Heavenly Kings. Later, in Journey to the West, this third prince fought the Monkey King again.
Children's conflicts should not have involved adults in the first place. Yet children sometimes went too far, making adults want to punish them in place of their parents. But if adults, like Nezha, became embroiled in a blood feud without understanding the gravity of things, it would become a fight to the death.
Just then, a young man named Newt Scamander brought back a Zouwu. The Zouwu liked him very much, as though it did not want to return to its